Welcome to another week of exciting developments and news in OriginTrail’s community. Let’s first reflect on what has been done. Here are the updates we shared last week:

Our recent partnership with Oracle still resonates on social media and in the press. Last week we got an awesome shout-out on Twitter from Oracle EMEA Partners and some follow up media coverage. Oracle EMEA Twitter: “The integration of Oracle Blockchain Cloud Services with SCM focused platform OriginTrail is a key step in building a Unified SupplyChain Network” and we could not agree more. This week, a senior technical employee of Oracle is visiting our product team in Belgrade, so there will be more news soon.

One of our team’s favourite influencers Nye published an interview with our founders. We were delighted to learn that he was an early supporter of the project and can definitely say that the appreciation of each other's work in mutual. Crypto Shill Nye excels at community engagement, so in the interview we answered questions that the community asked on Twitter. We’ll publish a written interview recap too.

Talking about interviews and recaps, Ivan on tech’s interview is still reaching new audiences. I was so impressed with Ivan and his devotion to education and community that I’ve written a Medium post 3 things that I learned from Ivan on Tech, which was very well accepted in crypto as well as marketing communities because it outlines some best practices how influencers and companies can create good synergies.

Our CTO and cofounder Branimir Rakić presented OriginTrail’s technology at GDG Ljubljana Dev fest organised by Google and BTC company. The talk was very interesting since he explained decentralised trustless networks, Merkle trees and zero knowledge proof. One of the presentation highlights was a live demo how data from OriginTrail Vostok Mainnet can be explored with ONE - OriginTrail Network explorer. We shared a couple of tweets from the event.

We presented OriginTrail to BiTA members - Blockchain in Transport Alliance through an exclusive webinar that we co-organised with them. Our team member Vladimir Lelićanin explained blockchain’s potential to ensure the trustworthiness of data in provenance-tracking systems in the food value chain. See the BiTA members here - some great names are there.

What’s next you ask? :)

Today a senior Oracle employee is in Belgrade. The integration of our technologies is progressing beautifully and we will update you on developments soon.

I will give a short interview on blockchain marketing for local blockchain community in Slovenia today - really looking forward to the event.

We will publish an educational Medium post with three presentations for business that are making blockchain use cases. The content was prepared by John G. Keogh, the chairman of the Trace Alliance.

BTW, how and when my TRAC will be returned to me, I assume it will be returned with some interest? Also CTR-C is not working for stopping nodes. And what's the story about deleting containers so I can run the docker again?

Unless you skipped tracing our updates last week, you probably know by now that on Friday, December 7th, 2018, we successfully launched the OriginTrail Vostok Mainnet. The response has been very encouraging. Thanks a million for all the good vibes that you sent to the team on Reddit, Discord, Twitter and Telegram.

OriginTrail Vostok Mainnet is up and running. Fun fact, the first published data set on the OriginTrail Vostok Mainnet is about the longest supply chain ever made by humankind. Check out our launch blog post to learn which one that is and come by and say hi on Discord if you have any questions regarding running a node. The Discord community is now 1000+ members strong and community members are super helpful to each other. It is a very nice place to learn more about the OriginTrail tech. + here are some pics

Ivan on Tech OriginTrail video was published on Thursday, December 6th. We are happy to observe the viewing trends in this video. Right now it hit 13,370 views and it is still growing. We were also glad to receive comments that we are creating best practices for announcing partnerships in the blockchain space. We went to visit Oracle’s office and recorded statements with our partners for this video. Check it out if you missed it.

We recorded an interview with one of my favorite people of Crypto Twitter. The one and only Crypto Shill Nye. It was awesome to find out that he has been following us since our beginnings. For me, he is one of the kindest and most positive people in the crypto twitter space. I cannot wait for the interview to be published.

We published the November report (shameless brag - we have never missed a deadline for a report to this day and we have been publishing them since January).

I got a friendly shout out from the Ladies of Blockchain community. As you are probably aware, there are not that many of us working in the field, but it is important to attract more great talent to the industry, so I appreciate initiatives like this a lot.

We will record an exclusive webinar for BiTA (Blockchain in Transport Alliance) members tomorrow. Senior developer Vladimir Lelićanin will present on blockchain’s potential to ensure the trustworthiness of data in provenance-tracking systems in the food value chain. See BiTA members here.

It's clear that this subreddit is finely tailored, which is definitely better than many poorly maintained cryptocurrency subreddits, but I think the community involvement here could be better! OriginTrail seems like such a promising project. Intelligent interaction with the team I think should not just be limited to discord/telegram chats (not that I know, I don't have either), but permanently visible on reddit, too, to help others adopt. So:

We are up for another exciting week. I am traveling to Belgrade again today. We will send you some cool pics of how we are launching on Friday.

Before I take off, let’s quickly revisit what has happened last week:

We published 39 projects which applied for the OriginTrail Open Call and gathered enough points in our screening evaluation to be presented to the community. We are working with them to prepare presentations for the community vote that will be published in three weeks.

I shared learnings and outcomes of OriginTrail’s Workshop in Ljubljana at which business professionals were developing use cases in a LinkedIn post.

Žiga was presenting to foodtech and agritech professionals at agritech forum in Ljubljana. We’ll tweet official pics soon.

Branimir’s TEDx talk was published. He presented about why blockchain technology is the trust machine.

Last but not least, we launched a holiday giveaway on Friday and it went viral over the weekend. We have very good fraud protection measures in place and we are closely monitoring the campaign to eliminate anyone trying to hack the system.

For the very first time, I will also highlight what was not done, because it is really important this week. Ivan on Tech interview was delayed and it is expected to air this week. The surprise Medium post is about his visit to Ljubljana and Belgrade, so I hold that piece in the pipeline too.